An inquiry into the human mind on the principles of common sense / by Thomas Reid.

  • Reid, Thomas, 1710-1796.
Date:
1824
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    quired no other expense, but that of time and at- tention, which I could bestow The leisure of an academical life, disengaged from the pursuits of interest and ambition; the duty of my profes- sion, which, obliged me to give prelect ions on these subjects to the youth; and an early inclination to speculations of this kind,—have enable me, as I flatter, to give a more minute attention to the subject of this inquiry, than has been given be- fore. My thoughts upon this snbjects were, a good many years ago, put together in another form, for the use of ray pupil*, and afterwards were sub- mitted io the judgment of a private philosophi- cal society, of which I have the honour to be a member. A great part of this inquiry was honoured even by your Lordship's persual. And the enouragement which you, my Lord, and others, whose friendship is my boast 8nd whose judgment I reverence, were pleased to give me, counterbalance oiy timidity Hnd diffidence, and determined me to offer it to the public. If it appears to your Lordship to justify the common sense and reason of mankind, against the sceptical sublities which, in this age, have endavoured to put them out of countenance; if it appears to throw any new light upon one of the noblest parts of the divine workmanship ; your Lordship's respect for the arts and sciences arid your attention to every thing which tends to the improvement of them, as well as to every thing else that contributes to the felicity of your conn- try, leave me no room to doubt of your favour- able acceptance of this ess%y, as the fruit of my Tndusfrv iu a profession wherein 1 was account-